* Liam Proven [11-21-18 09:55]:

I am trying to install the proprietary drivers for an nVidia Quadro K620.

Is there anything I should know or do?

I have tried by this method:

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers

I have 2 installations on the machine, side by side. Tumbleweed and Leap 15. Both are new, clean installations.

With both, I get the same symptoms. After installation, when I reboot, I get a 1024*768 desktop on the primary monitor only. I cannot run ``nvidia-settings'' because it says there's no xorg.conf file and I am to run ``nvidia-xconfig'' as root to create one.

I do this and reboot.

Result, blank screens, flashing text cursor, nothing else.

Both distros behave identically. Both were fully updated prior to trying this.

If I use Alt-F1 to switch to vconsole 0, I can log in, remove the nvidia packages, rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf to *.old or whatever, reboot, and nouveau works again, on both monitors.

guessing but had similar. neuveau needs to be blacklisted for the nvidia drivers to work. I install the ..run file and needed to boot with nomodeset kernel param in order to install nvidia drivers. you also have a setting for the video in "yast bootloader". -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

On 21/11/2018 16:43, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:

Yeaaaars ago I reported a bug at NVIDIA re. nvidia-settings and xorg.conf ( which has been deprecated and replaced by xorg.conf.d ), others did too, bugs were all denied. That would not have been an issue if nvidia-settings would generate a proper xorg.conf which it hardly ever does. And, not only on openSUSE, I've seen reports for many other distros. Same for the nvidia- xconfig utility

I have to admit, I have not had any problems on Ubuntu since when I was using an ancient (turn-of-the-century) TNT Riva 2 card which wanted an older glibc than came as standard. And I got that working. My old, now-sold-on huge Toshiba Satellite Pro P300A desktop-replacement laptop had a 17" LCD -- yes really -- with some ancient ATI GPU that ATI stopped supporting in 2012. It got a bit flakey around Ubuntu 12.04-02, the LTS where x.org got too new for the ancient fglrx driver, but by 2013, the FOSS radeon driver was fine and everything started working again -- even Mir. So it's fair to say I've _never_ had problems like I'm having with this bally Dell and the latest releases of openSUSE! :'( -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

On Wed, 2018-11-21 at 17:51 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:

On 21/11/2018 16:35, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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guessing but had similar. neuveau needs to be blacklisted for the nvidia drivers to work.

Aha. So the page that says "nVidia the hard way" is in fact the *only* way? :-(

No, it should "just work", and everything else is a bug. That being said, I'm having some issues after a recent kernel/nvidia driver update, but at least until a week ago everything was working just fine :-) Robert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org

* Liam Proven [11-21-18 11:51]:

On 21/11/2018 16:35, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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guessing but had similar. neuveau needs to be blacklisted for the nvidia drivers to work.

Aha. So the page that says "nVidia the hard way" is in fact the *only* way? :-(

I cannot and did not say that. I have only used "the hard way".

OK, I've checked. It's blacklisted.

I have: grep -i nouveau /etc/modprobe.d/* /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist-nouveau.conf:blacklist nouveau /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf:blacklist nouveau /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf:options nouveau modeset=0

I've tried with and without ``nomodeset''. No difference.

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I install the ..run file and needed to boot with nomodeset kernel param in order to install nvidia drivers.

Do you think that is worth trying?

works for me. I cannot advise with the rpm, haven't used it.

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you also have a setting for the video in "yast bootloader".

(?)

you need to look: "Kernel Parameters" "Use graphical console" "Console resolution" <your choice> -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org